Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Enroll your children in a preschool program A preschool program for foreign children will be held every Saturday between March 5 and April 23 at the Osaka International House Foundation in Tennoji Ward. The program is intended for foreign children who are planning to ...
Join a Hinamatsuri cooking class in Hyogo Nishinomiya City International Association is seeking participants for a Hinamatsuri (Girl’s Festival) Japanese cooking workshop on Feb. 26 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. To celebrate the festival, which falls March 3, participants will learn to cook Hinamatsuri-related dishes, ...
Participate in Korean cuisine, kimono classes Osaka YWCA Senri Center’s Bridges Program is seeking participants for a Korean cooking class on Feb. 14 and a kimono-wearing workshop on Feb. 27. In the class on Korean cuisine, participants will learn how to prepare “taktoritang” spicy ...
“Goseicho arigato gozaimashita” (thank you for listening), a regular way of ending a speech, echoed in the meeting room after each foreign speaker gave their presentations and received a big round of applause from the audience. Diplomats from 13 countries — including two ambassadors ...
Osaka cultural award winner to give lecture This year’s winner of the Yamagata Banto Prize will deliver a lecture from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 10 at the Osaka Museum of History in Chuo Ward. The Yamagata Banto Prize is an international ...
Watch penguins parade at Osaka aquarium Kaiyukan Aquarium in Minato Ward, Osaka, is holding its annual penguin parades on Saturdays and Sundays until Feb. 6. Eight king penguins will parade in front of the aquarium three times daily. The popular event has been held ...
Kyoto’s cultural halls to host free concerts A number of free concerts will take place in Kyoto’s cultural halls in January, February and March. The first event, a concert performed by a local mandolin ensemble and chorus group, will be held from 2 p.m. ...
Subtitled Japanese films to be screened in Osaka The Osaka International House Foundation is organizing three screenings of Japanese films with English subtitles on Jan. 21, Feb. 18 and March 18 in Tennoji Ward. The screenings will be held from 6:30 p.m. to around ...
Minato International Association, which arranges activities and programs mainly for foreign residents in Minato Ward, Tokyo, offers a unique program in which Japanese volunteers give foreigners individual Japanese conversation lessons. According to Masahiro Otomo, managing director of MIA, the program was launched a decade ...
Some 50 nikkei gathered with foreigners and native Japanese on Oct. 16 and 17 to discuss how to run Nikkei Youth Network, an organization that supports young people of Japanese descent worldwide. The participants represented a fraction of the estimated 3 million nikkei worldwide ...
A total of 35 junior high school students from nine countries, including India, Malaysia and Hungary visited schools in Kanagawa and Niigata prefectures last month as part of an exchange program to promote cultural understanding. The exchange program was organized by the Hakuho Foundation, ...
About 350 people gathered for a charity event last week in Tokyo to raise funds to support victims of Pakistan’s devastating floods this summer. Tokyo Helps, a volunteer group founded by people from various countries, raised ¥3.4 million in the Wednesday night event held ...
